On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:03, Tianran Chen wrote: > i notice that every time it startup, the dependency of services are scaned > and checked, which take about 2~3 seconds. i wonder is this a step that > can be cut off? also, is /etc/init.d/modules neccesary? > > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 14:44:03 -0500 (EST) Tianran Chen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | is there anything i can do to make it even faster? 10s will be my > > | goal. thanks for any idea! > > > > *** WARNING: UNSUPPORTED HACK BELOW *** > > Edit /etc/conf.d/rc and screw around with some of the settings. In > > particular, RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP will probably be a benefit on laptops > > (lots of CPU and terrible I/O). You may also gain from (ab)using the > > tmpfs settings (again, sucky I/O). > > > > These settings are quite possibly broken. > > *** END HACK *** > > > > Also, aim for a nice small kernel without modules. Cut out all the junk > > you don't use, look at the embedded options and maybe consider some of > > the patches from the -tiny tree. > > > > -- > > Ciaran McCreesh > > Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org > > Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > > >
I have noticed that ext3 partitions mount considerably quicker than reiserfs ones of the same size... -- Tom Wesley
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